Social Studies Teachers... This page is for you to add resources helpful to your area. Add comments and rate the sites for helpfulness. Post your ideas on projects and collaborative efforts with other departments. There are many tools on the resources pages and the general tools for your use as well. When you find particularly good sites for your area... narrow the search and add them here.

American History Worksheets and lesson plans. This actually go specifically with Daniel Boorstin's A History of the United States (Needham: Prentice-Hall, 1989) but its all material for debates. If you want more specifically to have short clips to add to your instruction try HippoCampus You can select a specific book or just use the general categories listed to get clips.

History Tours

Cities Panarama This link takes you to sites and cities -- and shows the camera panning 360 degrees. Movie rather than stills are a great option -- there are inside shots as well. Across the World!

News and Current Events Integrated into Lessons

iCue Free and easy access.

www.civiced.org Nice resource, but unfortunately the daily 60 second podcast is blocked in school.

Civil War
Interactive Civil War Map
Sherman's March to the Sea
Collection of civil war maps
Teaching with technology (Civil War)
Civil War Wiki

Videos: on History Animated... you do not have to register to view and use... you do not have to pay, they simply have a place for donations. If you register they will add you to their e-mail notification list as their database grows. There are links that take you out and about (Amazon for books)... but once you know what you're looking for this site has great video resources (check out Pearl Harbor for one).

http://english.pobediteli.ru/flash.html?DR=0 World War II - Russian front - animated map